I recently had a craving for soft tacos, but as I am not an expert tortilla maker, I decided to just use my already proven rotis as the taco delivery platform.

🪅 Just Sharing The Spread 👨‍🍳 Not A Recipe Post 🕉️

If you don't already know, my family and I are vegan, so of course these tacos are meatless, and that's kind of the reason I am not making this a recipe post. I wanted to attempt a vegan ground taco meat-ish replacement kind of thing, and making soft tacos with rotis instead of tortillas would be an additional experiment of sorts. With a couple experimental things going on, I knew this would either be a hit or a miss, and besides, it takes several times to perfect a new dish, so I'll share this with you all when/if it is ready, keep scrolling and reading to find out....

This whole thing started because we had some nacho chips from Phnom Penh, and after the chips were consumed there was a bowl of leftover homemade salsa to use. My mind began to wander, and I began thinking I could use rotis as tortillas, leaving only the ground beef problem to solve. I looked at about 10 or so recipes online, most of them involving any combo of cauliflower, nuts, mushrooms, and lentils, and eventually decided to make my own with a mix of cauliflower and walnuts I brought over from the USA nearly a year ago.

🌯 The Finished Product 🌮

The ground taco meat substitute ending up being the minced walnut-cauliflower mix, seasoned with cumin, onions, garlic, paprika, and some other things I am probably forgetting. I cooked it in the wok on super low heat for around 40 minutes, when it eventually began to resemble taco meat and the walnut oil began leave the walnuts. My wife and youngest daughter were out of town for a few days, so this dinner was just for Srey-Yuu and I.

Well, it was a hit, and the rotis stayed strong, holding together long enough for us to quickly toss a roti taco down our faceholes just after construction was completed. Our mock meat turned out really well, and even though it was nothing like ground beef, it worked well, and I dare say I like this creation more than real beef tacos in my pre-vegan days. I think this ground beef-ish mix might even work well in larb, a Thai-Khmer-Laotian salad that my wife does very well. I will be sharing this recipe in a properly formatted post in the near future, so stay tuned for that.

It's A Cat 🐈‍⬛ Not A Soft Taco 🌯

In unrelated news, my cat, ChairWoman Meow, is still cute as can be. The rainy season is slowly returning, so now she spends more time indoors cuddling and less time outdoors claiming souls. She now likes to be fed seaweed and potato chips at 3am and 5am, but if her hunt was successful, she won't wake me up at 3am. Either way, no matter how much geckos, crickets, and mice she eats, she always wants seaweed and chips at 5am, perhaps just to entertain our vegan lifestyle. Either way, it's cool to have a cat that hangs around even though she has to hunt for her protein.